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Written by Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert
The Kiev regime is absolutely unable to maintain control over what happens in the country. In a recent statement, the Ministry of the Interior announced that it does not have information on the location of all the weapons that had been distributed to the Ukrainian population since the establishment of the martial law – immediately after the launch of Russia’s special military operation. This means that millions of weapons are circulating freely across the country – or even abroad – and could end up in the hands of criminals and terrorists. However, more than that, the real concern seems to be with the possibility of the Ukrainian people starting an uprising against the government.
Igor Klimenko, Ukraine’s Interior Minister, stated on April 12 that many of the weapons distributed to citizens are simply no longer under government control. There is no data to prove the location of the weapons, thus preventing any type of control over the circulation of these equipment. This has caused concern for the government, which is trying to create mechanisms to recover the weapons – or at least locate and monitor them.
“How many weapons do our citizens have in their hands? Between 1 and 5 million (…) How many grenades? Quite enough as well (…) We (…) understand that they should have it because there is a war going on”, the Minister said.
Ukrainian lawmakers are currently working on a bill to establish an official procedure obliging citizens to surrender or register their weapons. At the beginning of hostilities with Russia, the Ministry of the Interior distributed millions of weapons to civilians. The alleged objective was to strengthen the population and create popular militias to protect Ukrainian cities from Russian “invaders”.
In addition to firearms, grenades were also given to ordinary people, which shows the high level of irresponsibility on the part of the Ukrainian government. To make matters worse, many veterans return from the front lines with captured weapons that they keep as “trophies”, which makes it even more difficult for authorities to have control over the military equipment circulating in the country.
Obviously, the irresponsible distribution of weapons to ordinary people can have catastrophic consequences. The government claims that it is particularly concerned about the fact that many soldiers return home having mental problems due to stress on the battlefield. People in these health conditions should not have weapons as they could pose a risk to society. Although valid, the argument does not seem sufficient to explain the regime’s concerns.
The Ukrainian government has never shown any real concern for the mental health of its troops. People with mental problems are even being sent to the front, in addition to the fact that soldiers are being forced to remain on the battlefield for an extended period, ignoring any health protocols. The neo-Nazi regime is well known for its disregard for the lives of ordinary citizens and its indifference for the health of soldiers, which is why such concern does not seem to be the real reason why Ukraine wants to regain control over weapons.
Furthermore, it is necessary to remember that since 2022, Russian authorities have been reporting the presence of Western-supplied Ukrainian weapons with terrorist groups around the world, even in Africa. Kiev has always ignored the evident fact that its weapons were on the black market, which is why this does not seem to be the actual explanation behind the regime’s desperation in controlling the circulation of weapons from now on.
Certainly, Zelensky and his team are particularly concerned about growing popular dissatisfaction and the possibility of a mass uprising. Despite being a dangerous and irresponsible measure, arming civilians inevitably guarantees greater power of rebellion for ordinary citizens. With weapons in their hands, Ukrainian civilians could create popular self-defense militias, not against the Russians (as Kiev planned), but also against the neo-Nazi regime itself and its dictatorial policies.
With armed people willing to protect themselves and resist the measures of the regime, it may become impossible for Kiev to continue maintaining the forced conscription system in the long term, for example. Being the Ukrainian people increasingly dissatisfied with the war, it appears that Kiev fears that there will be popular uprisings against the authorities – which, considering the people’s possession of weapons, could lead to a civil war and the immediate collapse of the regime.
In fact, Ukraine is in an increasingly complicated situation. It will be difficult to regain control over distributed weapons, since ordinary citizens will certainly not accept obeying the new law – and will be able to defend themselves from reprisals precisely because they are armed. Without the trust and support of its own people, the regime does not seem to have any good expectations, being defeat a mere matter of time.
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senility precludes control of my diarrea
giving them weapons is in fact a sign of deep trust and faith from government to its people. dictatorships like china, but also uk, italy or todays occupied germany etc. would never allow its citizens to own weapons as they know that uprising will take place sooner or later against the jewish controlled government.
its not like that but bad.
uprising is russian science fiction. so funny.
open your eyes little danish nazi clown.
living in fantasy again?
ground 0 wrote that
your alzheimer shows again.
i know. you write write here
“kiev has always ignored the evident fact that its weapons were on the black market,”
which is why the groveling pig zlovolodomyr travels the globe begging for more free weapons.
he needs to shop more weaponry directly onto the black market, to buy more villas abroad, to hide his monkey ass after the collapse of the entire former ukraine, in progress…
kiev has never ignored any black marked.
thats what they took over as country. very impressing your kind are able to erase tons of facts about it from eu and usa as well.
the rest is crap too.
facts are ukraine are very corrupt. but russia lovers could also save billions and many lives at home.
liar liar nazi cryer. clown
no need to confirm your self
“kiev has never ignored any black marked.”
kiev is a black mark. kind of hard or them to ignore it.
i think rt did an article shown on southfront few months ago showing the weapons were turning up in the middle east, africa etc..
too skandinavia as well.
look at her nazi faces, these hoes are ready to shoot anything that moves, including their own husbands
ukrainains are destined to be europe’s toilet cleaners and prostitute stock. they wasted their opportunity to have a decent country from 1991-2014. game over. with jews, you lose
very advanded if you are 5 years old.
2 of 3 crimes are bewteen family and friends
your mama is gunning for you? i don’t blame her.
i just say most crimes are not outsiders but from home.
you really are as thick as a brick, aren’t you?
that’s ok…she’s a new york yankees fan. no doubt she organizes human swastikas in the yankees bleachers like they do at uk football matches.
can it backfire? yes it can
that woman wearing a mask outside in the open, i can bet her iq is as low as the gun she is holding
at the real picture she also no hair and 3 legs.
she comes from a windy area. 🙈
civil war 2.0 on its way. break out the popcorn
the downvote kvetchers and nafo dog faced pony soldiers have entered the chat!
nafo nazis just like their nato nazis dont like the truth.
im afraid so.
several as most here and make anti babble only. i dont think internet was made for that.
the internet was invented to give even the lowest denominator moron like you a voice.
as an american, i support any of those civilians that shoot those tcc clowns right between their little nutsacks.
clowns
they will be sold to criminal gangs and terrorists all over europe just like previous wars
i dont think so. they will spread to all and very much for selfdefence as well.
.the weapons arriving to denamrk are old russian ones from old depots and gangs shooting each other.
what do you mean they don’t spread? you can buy any kind of weapon that the west provided to ukraine on the dark web. and criminal gangs buy them directly from ukrainian commanders and ship them to the rest of europe.
in russia they control every step you take, so that is the control society we aim for. where have you been, who have you talked to. today. every day.
so does the nsa in the united states
80 years of western agitprop and brainwashing….”muh freedumbs”, propaganda doesn’t happen over here in america, no way!
just like here in the usa. dont kid yourself, we are no better then any “dictatorship”. actually, we are the prime example of all of the bad things around the world.
and we support nazi clowns.
control is fine. the problems are russia control the wrong things and the needed ones and make stagnation and even backwards.
very visible from 1991 and evident crasg´hed reason for ussr.
so, you really do like those banderite nazi freakoids i see.
to worship amerikan money is only path to heaven
0 id wrote this .
0 ego of mine battle my 0 id and in process of destroying each other. that why i not make no sense never.
the poles are cheering for ukraine in hopes that people will finally drop the polish jokes and replace them with ukrop jokes.
they may be onto something.